World Environment Day: Update! Illegal Logging has Finished.

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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Mon May 27, 2019 1:44 am Samdech Kheng has ordered the Governor of Pursat to look at the case of illegal logging at Phnom Samkos
May 26, 2019, 11:22 AM
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The Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Interior, Samdech Krammeav Kheng, has ordered the Pursat governor to review the theft of timber in the Phnom Samkos Conservation Area near the Cardamons Mountain Range in Pursat, and has reported to Samdech HE to take action over this.
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Residents at the Phnom Samakos Protected Area say that Ratanak Sambath Company uses economic land concessions as an excuse, but is in fact logging forests in the mountains where the forest is supposed to be protected. They claim that the company has hired about 200 Vietnamese workers to log in the conservation area.
Sad to see those logs
Are they going to wait 100+ years to fell their replacements, if there even are any?

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Forestry police vs. military troops from the local RCAF base? Pretty confident that armed troops will willingly lay down their arms and allow the forestry police to destroy their profits?

Nah. Probably more villagers will be arrested by the forestry police for chopping down firewood for their stoves.
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Kratie province, Cambodia News: Long Ying, deputy chief of the provincial military police, said that on the morning of July 23, 2019, he led the Kratie Gendarmerie, on the orders of Mr. Banh Thorn, Provincial Police Chief, to crack down on the traffic of illegal forest products in Sambor district, Kratie province.
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The deputy chief said that after a through search of the area, the provincial armed forces came across two stores of piled wood hidden in the bush, waiting to be transported by night to the Vietnamese border.
The illegal timber has been duly confiscated by the authorities.
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Kratie province: From 21-24 July 2019, Cambodian armed forces in Kratie province confiscated four minivans that were being used to transport illegal timber. On the orders of the Kratie provincial prosecutor, the vehicles were set alight and destroyed on 25 July.
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Wed Jul 24, 2019 12:12 am Image
Kratie province, Cambodia News: Long Ying, deputy chief of the provincial military police, said that on the morning of July 23, 2019, he led the Kratie Gendarmerie, on the orders of Mr. Banh Thorn, Provincial Police Chief, to crack down on the traffic of illegal forest products in Sambor district, Kratie province.
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The deputy chief said that after a through search of the area, the provincial armed forces came across two stores of piled wood hidden in the bush, waiting to be transported by night to the Vietnamese border.
The illegal timber has been duly confiscated by the authorities.
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Judging by the colour of that timber in first photo, it is not freshly cut. It makes me wonder why / how it has been hidden for so long .
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Recent article from aljazeera on the work of activist Leng Ouch*, 2017 winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Article shows maps and video, the aljazeera program is beneath the article.
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* https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/leng-ouch/

PLUNDERING CAMBODIA'S FORESTS
Meet the man on a mission to take down Cambodia's timber tycoons and expose a rampant illegal cross-border trade.
5 days ago
Under a rickety wooden stilt house near Cambodia's Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary, one of the country's leading environmental campaigners is preparing dinner.

Ouch Leng stuffs raw meat into an empty beer can and throws it into the fire. It's a poor man's feast for his team of investigators to fuel them through a night's surveillance.

Chewing pork and buffalo, their infrared optics and cameras ready to record, they wait patiently for trucks to emerge from the darkness.

Their cargo? Timber logged illegally inside a wildlife sanctuary that is meant to be protected under Cambodian law.

"We went and saw eight trucks inside one sawmill and another timber truck was loaded with square logs," he says, as he chops vegetables for dinner.

"It's ready to export out tonight."
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In order to have illegal logging, you need roads. There is a serious crackdown going on at the moment along the border regions with Vietnam. It may be too little too late, but at least some action is being taken to put a stop to the impunity of some of the most rich and powerful. The authorities may have finally figured out that at some stage there will be no more trees.

August 15, 2019
Road construction in protected area halted

A road construction project in Mondulkiri province has been suspended after authorities discovered the district governor who initated the project did not seek approval.

Sok Kheang, director of the provincial agriculture, forestry and fisheries department, yesterday said provincial Governor Svay Sam Eang on Tuesday ordered his subordinates to temporarily prevent heavy equipment from paving the road and clearing trees in Pou Raing village.

Mr Kheang noted that district Governor Siek Mony was summoned by Mr Sam Eang for allegedly clearing the land without permission from the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry and the Provincial Hall.

Mr Sam Eang could not be reached for comment yesterday. Deputy Governors Yim Lux and Peng Sambath said they were not aware of the case.

The road is located in the province’s Sen Monorom commune in O’Raing district. If completed, the road would penetrate the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, residents said.

Kroeung Tola, a representative of an indigenous Mondulkiri community, yesterday said residents in the area are concerned about road construction because it could lead to land encroachment at the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary.
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We are getting super highways out in Osoam. Bodes well, no?

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August 20, 2019
Nine timber-laden trucks seized near Vietnam border
The National Committee for Forest Crime Prevention on Sunday seized nine trucks as they made their way toward the Trapaing Sre checkpoint in Kratie province toward Vietnam.

The trucks, loaded with timber, were stopped in Snuol district before they could cross into Vietnam. After they were stopped, the trucks were taken to the provincial military police headquarters.

Lieutenant General Hong Vinol, head of the NCFCP working group, yesterday said the trucks belonged to Siemon Agriculture Comprehensive Development Company.

“We stopped them because they were overloaded with logs,” Lt Gen Vinol said. “It’s against the Forestry Administration’s regulations.”

According to a letter issued by Forestry Administration deputy director Chann Ponnaka on August 9, Siemon was permitted to transport about 17 cubic metres of timber through the Trapaing Sre checkpoint before August 17.

Srey Vuthy, spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture, yesterday said Siemon is a registered company and it reached an agreement with the ministry to export timber.
“This is a legal company that has a license to transport timber to a foreign country,” he said. “It’s not like its some Economic Land Concession going against the law.”

Ouch Leng, an environmental activist, said Seimon is a company owned by a Chinese national.

He said some Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean companies are in the Kingdom looking to profit from selling timber products.

“Even though they have the documents, authorities still do not know if the logs are legal or not,” he said, adding that the Forestry Administration should first inspect companies to see where the logs came from before issuing an export license. “I request that the government stop issuing export licenses.”
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